Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

Startups looking for an Angel investor, or a Venture Capital investment usually realize that neither of these sources of funds normally has any connection with a bank. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. Their message and mission is confusing, even to professionals.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

His definition of empowering innovation: [Empowering innovations] transform complicated and costly products available to a few into simpler, cheaper products available to the many. and of efficiency innovation: [Efficiency innovations] reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services.

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.Net Capital Gains New York Distribution 102

Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

It operates three e-commerce websites: Diapers.com (baby care), Soap.com (health, beauty and household essentials) and BeautyBar.com (luxury beauty products). And for Amazon, these three sites (and their vast inventories and product mixes) will allow it to better compete with brick-and-mortar chains like Target and Wal-Mart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

Startups looking for an Angel investor, or a Venture Capital investment usually realize that neither of these sources of funds normally has any connection with a bank. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. Their message and mission is confusing, even to professionals.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 20, 2015

Customers and users burned by VC backed startup after VC backed startup may start looking around for independent alternatives who aren’t looking to sell them out, or sell out themselves, only to have the products they love and rely on killed by acquiring companies. If these ideals ring true, perhaps there could be a way to codify them.

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Equity Capital Gains Bootstrapping Distribution 40

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Dividends paid and capital gains realized on a per-share basis provide ordinary shareholders with a way to participate in the profits stream of the company. It is possible to participate in a company’s capital gains (losses) without purchasing its common stock if the owner of a warrant holds it for a lengthy period of time.

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Valuation Equity Warrant Common Stock 108

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2020

When banks turn their backs, founders usually take one of two roads: The first is bootstrapping, which involves liquifying all assets and operating on personal cash; the second is securing funding from family and friends. Beyond Bootstrapping and Begging. For generations, these strategies have boosted businesses from dreams to disruptors.

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Indiana Startup Bootstrapping Finance 165

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I use my calendar for both personal and work related appointments, so you will find anything from a reminder to send an email to promote a certain product, a group or private coaching call, a scheduled interview, my plans for the weekend, coffee shop meetings with friends or a date with a lucky lady. That’s about to change. Very small.

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Programming Internet Restful Hiring 79

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

When a startup both begins with an idea exposed by technological change and makes a product consisting of technology in the narrower sense (what used to be called "high technology"), its easy to conflate the two. Every successful startup is at least partly a product of the imagination of growth. [ Growth, again.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Acquisition 111

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

But I think we can all agree we’ve got a bit of a problem with friends, followers, fans, likes and especially free products. We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. We could take the product home and test it in the lab. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes.

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Additionally, Convertible Equity is “equity” that may have a lower capital gains tax benefit for investors, since it is likely classified as “qualified small business stock”. Product: The Funded. Basically, Convertible Equity removes the repayment at maturity and interest provisions of Convertible Debt. Photo Credit/ 22dollars.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Even when a female founder isn’t blamed for anything related to her own company culture and creates a genuinely female-friendly product, like Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, she gets attacked for her association with a problematic male business partner and investor. All startups, and all founders, operate far from perfectly.

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Cofounder Founder Employee Silicon Valley 206

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

They get to have “long-term capital gains” taxes which are much lower than short-term capital gains taxes paid by people who have stock options or income taxes paid to workers. We invest large sums of our after-tax money into our funds and this gets a long-term capital gain tax rate when we make a profit.

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Dividend Capital Gains Silicon Valley Stock 150